Comments on: Picture of the Day: Canada Invades

By: mike

mike — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 22:03:49 +0000

you sir, are an ignorant moron

By: michael

michael — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 23:14:10 +0000

I believe Jones is a testament to the ugly truth of ignorance in America, we must help there educators more, pound for pound…i have my money on the Canuck!
Peace!

By: zed

zed — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 16:23:50 +0000

We’ll trade you Florida for Quebec..cool?

By: Recon_Team

Recon_Team — Fri, 01 May 2009 20:50:22 +0000

The C7A1s you guys had were sexier than these new C7A2s.

By: elizzar

elizzar — Fri, 01 May 2009 14:30:09 +0000

re: Ed — do you mean the dieppe (not calais) raid of 1942? some interweb sourced facts ..:
“The Dieppe Raid of August 19, 1942 was one of the worst disasters of the Second World War. Nine-hundred-and-seven Canadian lives were lost on that day and 1,946 other Canadians were captured and forced to spend the remainder of the war as prisoners. The troops involved totalled 6,100 of whom roughly 5,000 were Canadians, the remainder being British Commandos and 50 American Rangers. The raid was supported by eight Allied destroyers and 74 Allied air squadrons (eight belonging to the Royal Canadian Air Force).“
what this fails to say, though, is that the failure was a major wake-up for the Allies idea for D-Day and it informed many of the later correct decisions (mass air support, ship bombardment, artificial harbours, the scale of the thing). There’s a very convincing argument that without dieppe, normandy would have failed. so thanks again canada :-)
oh and having just returned form a brief visit to vancouver, what a nice city and country you have, and yes the beer was good!

By: canadian eh

canadian eh — Fri, 01 May 2009 13:58:07 +0000

Awesome… the invasion has begun! Bet ya never saw that coming! Just wait for the Northern Front… attack beavers and moose cavalry. lol.
“wait, we have amphibious capability?”-
No, Canada does not have an amphibious capability. Our soldiers train to be able to perform amphibious assaults but the government has not yet ponied up the dough to get us the ships. There is a project in the works, originally due for 2010 but there were issues with the cost and it was put on a back burner, the Joint Support Ship, that would be able to carry a company and a half of light infantry, but the ships are multi-role, and mainly intended for supplying other ships at sea. Some purpose-built amphibious assault ships are also a part of a $30+ billion navy modernization project, but they are by no means at the top of the wish list and the Canadian government is very stingy with military spending. There was talk a few years ago about establishing a maritime special operations unit at esquimalt; I don’t know what happened to that, but I think the concept was assimilated into CSOR (canadian special operations regiment).
It’s nice to be able to train with allies because we don’t have much equipment, and what we do have is deployed overseas and VERY busy. Thanks guys, come north sometime… stronger beer and therefore, the women appear prettier.

By: Scathsealgaire

Scathsealgaire — Fri, 01 May 2009 03:42:39 +0000

@Jarhead
As a Kiwi, don’t worry about us and Obama. We like him better than Bush, and we helped under Bush. So we wont be backing out now.
Having said that, we are now under a Right-wing governement that was AGAINST helping when this whole thing started(they were in the opposition benches) and they seem to be trying to weasel-out now they are Government. We were under a Centre-Left Government when this whole thing started and they wanted to help.
We Kiwis are a weird bunch. Our Labour party(centre-left) agrees with spreading Democracy, and National(Right-wing) don’t because they don’t like how much it costs.

By: jsallison

jsallison — Fri, 01 May 2009 00:08:57 +0000

damn, now if they make it to the Ohio river DoD just might try to get my fat dime a dozen tanker has-been butt back in harness…

By: Jarhead

Jarhead — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:15:23 +0000

Dude, I think its awesome we got some of are allies 2 train with us. The Brits and Canucks, and to a lesser extent the Aussies and Kiwies are probaly the best allies we got, to bad Obama’s gonna blow all that to h**l.

By: Jones

Jones — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:26:53 +0000

These dorks should stay in Canada, and do what they do best.
Shoot at fish, and trap seals.
End of story.